Many of the images, photographs, plans and diagrams belonged to and were the work of
colleagues, each of whom is thanked for their speedy permission to allow their use. The …

Looking back after a gap of several years to the period of the so-called 'Celtic Tiger'in Ireland
it can be difficult to remember the sheer scale and amount of archaeological work that …

The authors rewrite the character of Early Mesolithic settlement in Europe with their new
research at one of its most famous sites. The picture of small mobile pioneering groups …

The Neolithic of Britain and Ireland provides a synthesis of this dynamic period of prehistory
from the end of the Mesolithic through to the early Beaker period. Drawing on new …

The adze resulted from the bringing together of different materials and it enabled the
creation of further assemblages. This remarkable object appears to have been made for a …

This paper reviews the human colonisation of Ireland. Archaeological evidence suggests
humans have been discontinuously present in Ireland from c. 12.8 to 12.5 ka cal BP. This …

Archaeoparasitology is increasingly being used as a tool in archaeological research to
investigate relationships between past humans, environments, diets and disease. It can be …

Acceptance of ritual as a valid interpretation of Mesolithic behaviour has slowly emerged
over the past decade; the 'silly season'heralded by Mellars (Antiquity 83: 502–517, 2009) …

This, the fifth of a series on the chronology of Mesolithic human remains, uses similar
methods to the previous paper in the series (Meiklejohn et al. 2011). We employ CALIB …

The origin of Ireland's fauna is an unresolved issue in the history of the island. Although
researchers once considered Ireland's mammals to have spread to Ireland during the early …